1. How to Do Animal Rights - Vegetarianism
from Jane Chicken and Joe Cow.
For & Against: argue your case
Rights vs Welfare
Claim: Humans have rights. So animals who are also sentient should have a measure of rights too. The most basic animal right is to live and not be
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2. How to Do Animal Rights - Zoos
public learn only what cowed, mad or withdrawn animals are like and that it is normal and acceptable that humans should control animals.
4. Public Entertainment
There were virtually no televisions in the 1950's when people flocked
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3. How to Do Animal Rights - Stop Calling Animals It
? A chimpanzee, horse, cat, cow or a mouse is as much a he or she as is a human. Calling an animal an it makes him inanimate material, a depersonalised object. As the philosopher Jeremy Bentham said:
"animals...stand degraded into the
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4. How to Do Animal Rights - Richard Martin
Gelding, Mule, Ass, Ox, Cow, Heifer, Steer, Sheep, or other Cattle...and if the party or parties accused shall be convicted of any such Offence...he, she, or they so convicted shall forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, not less
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5. How to Do Animal Rights - Factory Farming
cattle the remains of cows and sheep spreads Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or 'mad cow disease'. First detected in 1994, BSE causes the brain to waste away and is lethal. People can catch BSE from infected cattle and several people
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6. How to Do Animal Rights - Author - Playwright
euthanasia.
Etre the Cow, by Sean Kenniff
Etre (French for ‘to be’ or ’to exist’) is a simple bull who spends his life in a pasture. He tries to grasp his seemingly inescapable predicament: he is fenced in, powerless, but aware.
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